“Let’s get loud, turn the music up!”

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“Let’s get loud, turn the music up!”
“Sing, move and dance in the English Classroom!”
The 30 Goals for Educators
Maria Bossa
July 2015

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● Reasons for using songs in the classroom...
… help create a friendly and cooperative atmosphere
… offer insights into the culture, stories and myths of different societies
… offer a rich background, a social and historical context to language learning
Dale T. Griffee

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The Rhino Song
● Picture description
● Location in a map - Africa
● Parts of the body - animals
● General comprehension questions
● Free drawing of a rhino
The Elephant song
● Watch the video and exploit it - name of
animals (what animals Ss see)
● What activities those animals do
● Verb “can” - affirmative & negative
● Create a new version of the song

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1st Activity - Simple Present
● As Ss are “digital natives” they have to
explain their parents what Social
Networks are
● Ss are members of FB and have to explain
to their parents what FB is
● Ss explain what they do in FB
● General questions about the song
2nd Activity - Simple Past
● It’s the year 2050 and Ss have to explain
their grandchildren what Social Networks
were
● Explain what Facebook was
● Listen to the song and fill the blanks with
the missing words
● Tell what Ss did in Facebook
● General questions about the song

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● Look up some words in the dictionary - terrorism / discrimination…
● Find out information about the CIA / FBI / KKK / Al Qaeda
● Poster creation: glue pictures related to the topics from the song and
explain each picture in no more than 5 lines

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Only you - The Platters
● Tch hands in the lyrics in letter layout
leaving the “Dear” section in blank
● Ss listen to the song and think who they
would send that letter to
● Work with letter writing format
● Ss write a letter
Groovy kind of love - Phil Collins
● Tch hands in the lyrics in text layout
without punctuation marks
● Ask questions like “Does it have any
sense?”, “How would you improve it?”
● Match some words with their meanings